Tag: Communities

Free Download Alise Vanags, "Creating Livable Communities for People With Disabilities "
English | ISBN: 1607415348 | 2010 | 125 pages | PDF | 2 MB
"Creating Livable Communities" is an outgrowth of the National Council on Disability’s (NCD) interest and recent work in the topic of liveable communities for people with disabilities. The main impetus for this interest is threefold: 1) the prospect of a growing population of people with disabilities as the baby boom generation ages, 2) the desire that people with disabilities – indeed, all people-have to live in their own homes and communities and maintain their self-determination, dignity, and independence for as long as possible, and 3) the pressures that these factors will exert on local communities that strive to become liveable for people of all ages and abilities. This book thoroughly examines these challenges, as well as addresses promising practices. This book consists of public domain documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.

Free Download Changing Seasonality: How Communities are Revising their Seasons
by Scott Bremer, Arjan Wardekker
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3111245519 | 269 Pages | PDF | 5.43 MB

Free Download Building Communities in Gujarat: Architecture and Society During the Twelfth Through Fourteenth Centuries (Brill’s Indological Library, 22) By Alka Patel
2004 | 209 Pages | ISBN: 9004138900 | PDF | 163 MB
The Indo-Islamic architecture subject of this book is not the result of a ‘clash of civilizations’, but to be seen as innovations of the local architectural tradition, a product of local craft traditions. Alka Patel here brings together two architectural corpora in a careful analysis of the 12th- through 14th-century Islamic ritual buildings of southeastern Sindh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. The new social and ritual demands of Islam led local craftspeople to initiate rejuvenation and expansion of their skills and knowledge.Moreover, the commonality of building practices among "religions" led to the intertwining of various Muslim and non-Muslim communities.The work’s analysis of epigraphical evidence will be seminal to reorientations of historical methods investigating interactions among socio-religious groups in the region.

Free Download Digital Geographies-Theory, Space, and Communities: A Machine-Generated Literature Review
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819747333 | 1054 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 9 MB
This machine-generated volume, with chapter introductions by the human expert, showcases how digital technologies are having deep transformative impacts on geographies and temporalities of social, political, economic, and personal lives. They are altering perceptions and physicality of space and time. They are giving birth to digital communities and societies where distance remains of little significance. Virtual spaces and ICT have disrupted state sovereignties, often liquidating their physical national boundaries. The rise of the digital economy shows that new important raw materials for the future are information rather than coal, oil, and minerals. Digitalisation is also leading to several contradictory processes of democratisation, rising welfare of the citizens, as well as surveillance, peripheralisation and exclusion. States are taking pride in digitalising their services to the citizens, with massive consequences on the welfare of those facing digital divides.

Free Download Carl A. Maida, "Global Sustainability and Communities of Practice"
English | ISBN: 1785338447 | 2018 | 236 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Collaboration between experts and the public is vital for effective community engagement aimed at improving the lives of the most vulnerable in society, whether at the local or global level. Using case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban communities of practice, this volume illustrates how participatory researchers and students, as well as policy and community leaders, find ways to engage with the broader public when it comes to global sustainability research and practice.

Free Download Substance of the Ancient Maya: Kingdoms and Communities, Objects and Beings
by Andrew K. Scherer and Thomas G. Garrison
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0826366562 | 305 Pages | PDF | 13.8 MB

Free Download Aiden D. Hall, "Empowerment Zones, Enterprise Communities, and Renewal Communities "
English | ISBN: 1619427060 | 2012 | 105 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Provides a comparative overview of the similarities and differences between the Empowerment Zones (EZs), Enterprise Communities (ECs), and Renewal Communities (RCs) programs, and reviews congressional policy choices to target and provide federal incentives to economically distressed zones.

Free Download A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future (Urban and Industrial Environments) by J. Mijin Cha
English | December 3, 2024 | ISBN: 0262550792 | 216 pages | PDF | 8.64 Mb
Why the energy transition must be more than a fuel source replacement, and how we can seize the opportunity of the transition to build a more just future for all.

Free Download The Nazi Party and the German Communities Abroad: The Latin American Case (Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right) by João Fábio Bertonha, Rafael Athaides
English | February 17, 2023 | ISBN: 1032340509, 1032344709 | True EPUB/PDF | 158 pages | 0.6/13.6 MB
The Nazi Party and the German Communities Abroad examines the German Nazi Party’s actions around the world in the 1930s and 1940s.

Free Download Marjorie Mayo, "Changing Communities: Stories of Migration, Displacement and Solidarities"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1447329325, 1447329317 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.3 mb
Issues of displacement and dispossession have become defining characteristics of a globalised 21st century. People are moving within and across national borders, whether displaced, relocated or moving in search of better livelihoods. This book brings theoretical understandings of migration and displacement together with empirical illustrations of the creative, cultural ways in which communities reflect upon their experiences of change, and how they respond, including through poetry and story-telling, photography and other art forms, exploring the scope for building communities of solidarity and social justice. The concluding chapters identify potential implications for policy and professional practice to promote communities of solidarity, addressing the structural causes of widening inequalities, taking account of different interests, including those related to social class, gender, ethnicity, age, ability and faith.